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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
THE INMAN FAMILY.
They Become a Power in Southern
Railroad Management.
atlanta Constitution.

New YORK, December 20.-The
following are the latest and most
important moves on the railroad
chessboard: John H. Inman, as a
committee Of one, representing the
Georgia Company. has just perfected
contract with H. b. Plant, prcsi-
dent and autocrat of the entire Plant
system of railroads, by which the
closest possible alliance is formed
between the Georgia Central Railroad
and the Plant system. The contract
is absolutely reciprocal 10 its coop
erative provisions with reference to
all traffic, and establishes these two
vast systems of Southern railways in
perfect harmony Of interest and
policy.
The alliance virtually consolidates
two Of the greatest railroad proper.
ties of the South, and the combina.
tion is we'll calculated to battle
rivalry and squench all opposition.
It will. most likely prove strong OBJ
stacle in the way O: any new railroad
enterprise that either is now, or may
be hereafter, projected into the ter
ritory of the allied systems. The
contract is made with the idea of
mutual benefit, and in the spirit OF
mutual protection, offensive and de-
feBsive. One Of the most especial
benefits occurring to the Georgia
Central under the arrangement is the
guarantee TO its ocean steamship
company of all Florida freights,
which the Plast system can furnish
at Savannah. There is vast deal Of
this business it is claimed. This is
the first important action which the
Georgia company has taken in exer-
cising its rights through the owner
ship Of controlling interest in the
Georgia Central. The only other
step it has taken is to have deter
mined yesterday who shall compose
the Central Railroad directors next
year. Thsre will only be three
changes in the present board. The
pew trio will De Samuel NJ. Inman
and Hugh 4. Inman, of Atlanta, Ca,
and Walter Luttgen, Of August BEL
mont & CO.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
CONGRESSMAN SPINOLA.
The Great Unterriied Interrupter Ready to
Make Fun in the House.
Philadelphia Record.

Spinola is the present House of
Representatives-Spinola of the COL
lar. He has been marked figure at
Albany for years, partly on account
Of his originality and eccentricity.and
partly on account of his collar. The
collar is higher than the high water
mark of the highest dude fashion !; it
would make shirt front for q narrow
chested man, Spinola had no inten-
tion OF wearing it always when he
started in with it on at Albany. But
the newspaper man took it up and
made mirth of it. and he said to one
of them who asked him why he wore
ii; 'If / took it off now it would
make more talk than if I wore it
right along" So he has started in
here with the same old'pattern of
collar. He has taken front seat;
not like Bourke Cochran of New
York, to make eloquent speeches, but
to make funny interruptions II be
shall not be sat up at the start he
will be one of the most amusing
members Of the present House. In
the State Senate at Albany he did
just about as he pleased. He paid
no attention to the rules, but he
talked right out in meeting when
ever the fancy seized him. During
the spring of 1881, while Conkling
and Platt were fighting for :e,elec-
tion and rindication, Spino!a used to
get up when the name was called
during the voting and read long
clippings from the balf-breed Repub-
lican newspapers attacking Conkling
aud Platt. 1t was in vain that the
President of the Senate pounded on
his desk with his gavel; it was 10
vain that Senators cried out for order.
Spinola read till he had got through
all the clippings. and then he allowed
the roll call to proceed. His inter
ruptions while other Senators we're
speaking would have rendered him
eligible to membership in the Clover
Club had he lived in Philadelphia.
! To day | heard of a new one ia the
endless collection Of stories about
these Interruptions. One Peter Mitch
ell had been zealously advocating a
bill to increase the number Of local
Judges. A New York newspaper &C.
cused him Of a selfish interest arising
out Of his desire to get one Of these
proposed new judgeships. Next day
Peter rose to denounce the allegation
and defy the "alligator." "Why,
Mr.. President he said with a scorD,
Il would not take one of those Judge.
ships if it should be handed me on q
gold plate"
May I ask tas gentleman a
question p putin spinola:
"Certainly,% responded Mitchell
! loftily.
What would become of the
plate ?" asked Spinols, and he sat
down amid the laughter of the Seq
Ale
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29

and life free from labor and anxiety
there is fixed gulf which sympathy
could hardly cross, even if it would
for it is chained on one side by pride
and on the other by envy. Some
times, indeed, if man has risen to
riches by his own efforts, be may so
far remember his life of poverty as to
retain a certain sympathy for those
whom he has left behind him in it;
but this is rare, for three reasons {:
First, men caring enough for riches
to be willing to devote much time to
the acquisition of them are usually
of a somewhat low, material and un-
sympathetic nature. Second, in their
ascent to riches, after the first few
steps, they have to use other men as
stepping stones; for no man. unless
he have a monopoly talent, like
Raphael, can rise to riches otherwise.
Nearly all great fortunes are made
up of profits caught in labor traps.
Such using of other men solely as
means leads to forgetfulness that
they are ends, hardens the heart, and
destroys sympathy. Third, men who
have made their own fortunes-self-
made men. as they are wisely called
have usually great deal Of :espect
for their maker. and 4 proportionate
contempt for those who, having less
cunning than themselves, have re-
NAMED in the ranks of poverty.
Thus it frequently happens that self.
made men ere among the less humane
of aristocrats. And the case is even
worse with their children and with all
persons born to wealth. These lack
altogether the experience that would
enable them to sympathize with the
ordinary, natural human life of labor
and narrow means. Raised above it,
they cannot comprehend it. l have
known hundreds of excellent men
and women, nurtured in the lap of
af1aence, who we're earnestly de-
sirous of sympathizing with people
Of all grades; but never knew one
who succeeded any further than to be
able to play Lord BouDtiful or Lady
Charitable with discriminating con-
descension, which, at best, is but
humanity's fallen counterfeit. Riches,
by an evil education, had deprived
them of the best part of human cul-
ture, the power of simple sympathy,
and placed them in position where
in that source Of all human virtue
was unattainable for them. Their
beads were civilized, but their hearts,
whence were the issues Of life, were
condemned to essential barbarism..
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
Marion Pays Her Taxes.
Pee Dee Lder.

Our ohliging County Treasurer has
furnished ns with some data from
his books which will be interesting
to the people of the County. On the
tax books furnished him by the
County Auditor the treasurer is
charged with the collection Of forty
two thousand, nine hundred and FIVE
dollars ninety-seven cents, and his
receipts show that he has collected
forty.two thousand eight hundred and
fourteen dollars and sixty-eight cents
Leaving balance uncollected of
only s9l.29, or but little more than
is of one per cent. Besides this
amount be has collected the tax of
1852 POLLS, for which no return was
made to the Auditor. In collecting
these taxes he has issued 1914 re-
ceipts.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
THE BREATH OFTHE BLIZZARD.
Strong Wind md Snow in Minnesota
and Dakota.

MINNEApoL1s, December 21.-
The storm which began yesterday
and still continues in Minnesota is
by far the worst of the season. The
wind is strong and the snow drifted
badly. The storm is general in
the Northwest. 1t was accompanied
by cold weather in Dakota and North
west Territory, the lowest point
reached being 2S' below zero, at
Fort Assinaboine. At o'clock yes
terday it had stopped at all points in
Dakota except Bismarck, and was
moving east. Trains are delayed
somewhat, but as yet there is no
general interruption of business. If
the storm continues all day, however,
many railroad blockades must ensue.
Several inches of snow has fallen.
STARVING AND FREEZING TO DEATH
IN KANSAS.
KANSAS CITY. December 21.-
The Times has telegraphic advices
which indicate that there is terrible
suffering in the western part Of Kan.
sas. Four people are reported dead
in Clark County from cold, while
near Digbton man, woman and
her two children are known to have
perished. There is great suffering in
that section Of the State owing to
the scarcity of coal. The supply was
exhausted during the recent cold
snap in the first part Of the month,
and the situation is now deplorable.
The suffering is augmented by the
fact that food is almost as scarce as
fuel. Many of the inhabitants are
settlers who located claims last sum-
mer and who are dependent on what
the railroads bring in. The railroads
are trying to do oil in their power to
relieve the distress, but they are
handicapped by scarcity of cars.
They have not enough to supply the
urgent demand for food and fuel,
and widespread distress is inevitable
unless the weather speedily moder,
ates. The Santa Fe road has already
announced that it will ship free all
supplies which may be collected for
Clark County.
COLD SPOTS HERE AND THERE.
CAIcAGo, December 21.-At
o'clock this. morning, Fort Totten
Oak, reported the temperature al
200 below; at Denver it was "A be-
low,s and ct Montrose 200 below
| Away down at Fort Davis, Texas
| the inhabitants were revelling in the
novel luxury of snow storm, and al
San Francisco the thermometer stood
at 260 above.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
Mr.. Dibble's Proposal for the Election
of Two Vice Presidents.
From tile Louisville Couter-JoIrnQl.

From tile Louisville Courier-JoIrndl.
WASHINGTON, December 16.-1Ir.
Dibble, Of South Carolina, is going
to reintroduce in the House his reso.
luton for a constitutional amend.
ment to provide for a Second Vice
President. He is going to press the
matter, and expects to be able to
have the resolution adopted by this
Congress. He says:
81 f, lred it out at the last session.
That OF eighteen different persons
elected directly to the Presidential
office, four have died before filing
out their respective terms as Presi-
dent, three Of them during the first
year of their term, and the other
during the second year. Out of
twenty-five different persons elected
as Vice President, five died during
their terms Of office, one Of them re-
signed his Office, and four became
President. At The close Of the pres
eDt Presidential term there will have
been one hundred years of govern.
ment under the Constitution, and
during that period there will have
been twenty-five years, eight months
and four days-over one-fourth of
the time-When the country mas had
no Vice President; and this without
counting the short period in 1889, at
the beginning of our constitutional
history, when we were without
Vice President, until John Adams
assumed the duties of that Office in
that year. And in the last forty
years of the period named the Office
Of Vice President has been vacant
eighteen years, five months and FIVE
days, or nearly one.half Of the time.
This, to my mind, shows how impor.
tant it is that a second Vice Presi-
dent should be provided for. 1t is
quite startling to think how much of
the time during the history of our
country We have been just on the
verge Of chaos as to the Executive
department of the nation"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
Affiuence Becet* InsoIence.

Pref. 3H.,s, Dssridson, in the Forum.
1t is not ir human nature to be just
and humane, when robbed Of its due
experience of life's Fundamental con-
ditions. Whatever naFrows mans
experience narrows his sympathies,
and whatever confers on him ire.
sponsible power tempts him to abuse
it. Now, riches do both these things.
Whatever exceptional experience
they may provide, they certainly
withdraw their owners nom much
that must always enter into the life
Of The large majority Of human kind.
These must always anSiously labor
snd be content with moderate means.
Between life conditioned in the way
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
CASH FOR ARMEx1AN BRIDES.
How Young Men Secure Wives After
Worrying Over the Price Of Them.

living in the interior of Asia Minor,
and is as follows:
From time immemorial it has been
the universal custom in our country
to do all kinds Of business on trust.
The merchsnt sells his goods and
the farmer his wheat, sheep and oxen
on time, varying from one month to
q year or more, but the trade in
Armenian girls has always been
strictly in advance up to the present
day.
This last winter two girls in our
region were married, but as the way
in which the business was done at
tracted my attention, I wish to tell
the story to your readers.
"a year ago priest in the village
of s. lent 800 piasters to a man
in the village of k, on condition
that ne would pay l8 measures Of oil
as interest.
cat the end of the year the priest
demanded his money and his oil, but
as the man had neither money nor oil
be said to the priest:
Come. | will give ny girl to your
son and reckon the debt on her
price
The priest agreed to this, saying:
1--WE have seen your daughter, so
send for her and we will marry them
The debtor sent for bis girl and
the priest made preparations for the
wedding, thinking that the bargain
was complete. But not 80 the father.
He said:
"Give me 500 piasters more and
you may have the girl.
The priest, being hard up, said:
"I have no ready money, but after
the wedding is over I will find the
money and pay you
"To this the father replied:
Il will not give my girl on time
"Finally the priest raises the
money aud the ceremony is per-
formed.
The story of the second is as
follows:
"A young man from the village of
K was engaged to girl in the
village of e., but as his money
fell short of the sum demanded by
250 piasters he tried to borrow that
sum in the village, out no one would
trust him. As he would not have
time to 60 to his own village and get
the money before the beginning of
Lent, during which no one could
marry, he finally pursuaded some one
to lend him an OK, which he brought
to the girls father as security till he
could raise the money. The girls
father agreed to this and they were
married.
"When they came ont of the church
the girls father took them both to
his own house and said to the bride
groom:
"'1 Ou are now married. 20 and
bring the 250 piasters, after which
you can have your wife"
The bridegroom urged that he
had given the OK as security; so you
must wait till I can take my wife
home and bring back the money
The father replied:
"I have kept the OK as security
till now. After this l shall keep your
wife till you bring the money
so on his wedding day the young
man was obliged to leave his wife
and 60 to his village in search of
money to pay, his debt. After three
weeks time he succeeded in raising
the 250 piasters, which he paid to
his fathcr.in-law, and then took his
wife to his own house.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
METHODIST BISHOPS.
Prospects for the appointment OF Five
New Men for the Northern Church.

M1xSEApoLIS, MINI, December
ia prominent and-well-informed
Methodist clergyman saSs thai " 'g
- good IS certain that the Nv. EsFI
rrsnston. 8 former Minnesot. an. is
to be made Bishop. "At the next
General Conference of the Methodist
Church in New York, next Nay, :;
ssid the Sentleman, "a good many
matters otgreat Importance will come
up, and the appointment of bishops
is among them. BY the death of Bish.
Cd Harris, of New York. and R!shQp!
Simpson. Gf Phil lsaelph'a: 1heee are
sgo ;; yscancles in the Board of Bish-
OBS. Moreover, the work has grown
to such vast scale that altogether
it will be necessary to have at least
FIVE new Risheps: Tlefs. viii be .
l>ishop stationed in India and pro
bab!y one in China.
.OS course there are any NUMBER
of able and distinguished clergymeA
who would jump at the chsnce to be-
come Bishops, and some tall sche,n
ing is going on. Mr., Cranstoa' who
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
tion given by them that recent cap
lures in that section were made, and
for that they felt the swift and terri.
BILE vengeance of the moonshiners.
A WELL-PAID OFFICE.
Yet, In Spite Of Its Fatness, Not Alto
gether Bed Of Roses:
London Truth.

The presidency of the Republic is
one of the best sovereign posts going,
if its titular would take for his model
the poorly paid American at the
White House, and give priority to
his social duties, not troubling him
self much about the Chambers and
Cabinets. Until Mile. Alice Greyy
married, the Elysee under her father
was a pleasant house. There were,
and not seldom, brilliant soirees.
The President was most gracious
host. General Pittie, after the son.
in.law came in, tried to react against
his prosaic influence; but gradually
he became tired, and when he died
parsimony and prudence carried all
before them. The lights were put
out before 10 at night; pleasure vas
banished for business. The Peru
Wan, Madame Dreyfus, stuck to
Alice like her shadow. She gave her
a diamond necklace worth $4,000.
OF course, claimant dormant" was
implied in the present. Nor oletism,
l fear, was the reason why that guano
affair of the Dreyfuses was so well
pushed at the Elysee. Old Vespa.
sian, it occurs to me, was a common
sense old man, too. and moderate, Sc.
rene, and fond of sailing away" the
money which his official emoluments
and perquisites brought him.
The President is lodged rent free
at the Elysee, has all the vegetables
and frnits he needs for his table
from the kitchen gardens of the coun.
try palaces and greenhouses, flowers
for his fetes from the city green:
houses, and g squad of .men.seryants.
whose liveries, board and wages he
does not find. The State gives him
oak logs to burn, and oil, gas and
electricity to light his palace up with
at night. It furnishes and washes
all his house linen, allows him, three
carriages and horses, provides him
with rich and commodious furniture.
which it keeps in repair. and it re.
modelled and refurrished 8 whole
wing of the Elysee for NJ. and Mad
ame Wilson. Some of the .perqui.
sites are the faculty to bestow a GER
tain number of crosses of the Legion
of Honor, for one Of which THAT Of
simple Knight) Blanco Monaco paid
$4,000. Their there are the State
boxes in the subsidized theatres, and.
game preserves in the State forests.
with State paid rangers to keep them.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
The Hotel at Aston Robbed.

ALsToN, December 20.--The hotel
at Aston was entered on last Sun.
dav night by burglars. and a large
stock of articles we're taken. The sto
len articles were two mattresses, two
blankets, four pillows, four quilts,
one counterpane, one bolster, one
washstand, one wash bowl, and a so.
lb. sack of -four. Mrs. Elkin, the pre-.
prietress, with her family occupy tho
upper portion of the house.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
3IOONSHlNERS OF ALABAMA.
Over Hundred In Court-TerribleVe
geance Inflicted upon Informers.

HUNTSVILLE, ALA. December 49,
The number Of outrages recently
committed by moonshiners in Alaba-
ma has attracted a great deaf Of at
tention. About October l there we're
1O4 men in this city charged with
violation of the internal revenue law.
The United States Court had i'm.
posd light sentences upon moon.
sinners and they had multiplied in
north Alabama until this large mum
Der was brought before the Court at
one time.
Colonel Chapman, on behalf of the
Government, and Congressman Bank.
head and Wheeler, on behalf of the
moonsbiners, agreed upon compro
mise which, it is thought, would put
an end to illicit distilling in north
Alabama, and bring peace to that
section. The one hundred and four
men were brought before the Court
and told that sentence in their cases
would be suspended for six months
if they would plead guilty and agree
to quit distilling, bring in and sur.
render their stills by the 10Th of No.
vember, and give the revenue officers
all the information they might have
which would aid them in discovering
illicit distilleries and breaking up the
business in north Alabama. All Of
the prisoners accepted these terms,
and after signing an agreement to
that effect they were discharged.
The result has not been what was
anticipated. Some of the parties
have surrendered their stills and are
complaing with their agreement in
good faith. They are furnishing the
revenue agents with information they
never had before about the location
of stills, and upon this information
captures have been made. Those
who have thus sided with the govern.
ment have incurred the mortal enmi'
ty of those who still carry on the
business Of illicit distilling. 1t was
! in this way that Bannister and Ter
rell lost their lives about ten days
ago. They were among the number
arraigned before the Court here, and
tney had faithfully complied with
their promises then made to the Gov
ernment. 1t was through informa.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
News About Stanley.

LONDON, December 21.-Advices
from Zanziba. under date of Decem-
Der 10, state that messenger has ar.
rived from Central Africa, who
brings no direct news from Stanley,
but says it is reported in the country
on the eastern side Of Nyanza that
Stanley, after many prlvatlons,
reached Wadelia in the early part of
September.